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swarms of noxious creatures must be inju- 

 rious to the human constitution. 



There is a kind of beetle, called a tumble- 

 bug, which in the summer forms a cave in 

 the earth ; and, when an animal drops his 

 dung, two of those go to the place, and roll 

 up into a round ball a piece, as big as a small 

 walnut, which they push forwards with 

 their fore feet or legs to their cave. It is 

 said that there is an egg in the inside of 

 every one of those balls. There are such 

 quantities of these beetles, that you will 

 scarcely see any dung left in the pasture 

 during the summer : consequently they 

 greatly impoverish the land. 



There is a kind of grass-hopper, which 

 eats up the meadows in the summer, and 

 potatoes, indeed every thing that is green. 

 They are not frequent : but when or where 

 they do come, they destroy all before them. 

 Mr. Gitting told me he had all Ms fine 

 timothy destroyed by them one year, and 

 every thing in his garden : they even took 

 the bark from the currant-trees. 



